Norfolk Walk: Burgh Castle Roman Fort, Great Yarmouth, English Heritage

 

3/4/'22

After our little visit to the St. Olave's priory, we detoured to Burgh Castle Roman fort near Great Yarmouth. Again, I didn't have a clue there was a roman fort ruin site in Norfolk, near Great Yarmouth. It was lovely open space walk to the Fort. Walked by the river/sea? I could see windmill over the water. Clouds were mud, so much texture and shaped, felt so grateful for the weather we had that day. 

Until then, that week was mad. Snow on 1st April then hailing for two days on and off. It was freezing, everyone though "we are back to winter again..." 😅 

 Until walked towards the fort, I didn't realise it was actually a fort rather than Castle.  It was huge! Huge wall surrounded the area. It was built by Romans, impressive, still standing. 

photo above, I am trying to push the wall back to straighten it, but it was very heavy! 🤣

Anyhow, beautiful day, after visiting the Fort, we popped down to Walberswick for a quick dip. It was a bit wavy, although i didn't stay in the water as long as I normally do, I felt refreshed afterwards. 

When we got back home, we had our salad and yummy!

Since March, we have been doing intermittent fasting, my guts feel really good, also mentally, physically and emotionally. Feel content and my gratitude has gone up even more! I was eating a lot and very often ( snacking a lot), I stopped snacking now.  I really looking forward to my dinner/ salad every night these days. So pleased We 've started it. We are carrying on doing our intermittent fasting into this month as well as in May. Bonus is; weight is dropping too. if you are over weight, there's fair chance cancer might come back, for this reason, I wanted to lose weight a little... I really don't want to have cancer and going through that again! Twice is enough...😅

Anyway, back to The roman site. East Anglia is such a gem. If you are thinking about summer holiday in U.K, why don't you come to East Anglia?. 

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/burgh-castle/

Norfolk walk: St. Olave's Priory, Norfolk, Great Yarmouth

 

Sunday 3/04/'22

We ventured out to Norfolk. Marcus took me somewhere different. Never been there before and heard of it either. Not far from Beccles, and near Great Yarmouth. 

We  parked our car in the holiday park/ camp site/ restaurant car park, and walked out to the priory. Along there, said hello to Llamas, they were cute. 🤩 

I was guessing he took me there because he felt or knew lay line going through? Lovely energy and cute priory. Still standing and basement was still intact although I could see some repairs. It would've been beautiful back in days. Always I imagine how it would be like....When I went to Majorca, we stayed in a little monastery on the top of mountain. Puge it was called. It was also medieval, outer accommodations were also medieval although some repaired since. How people in those days built such a beautiful building, often very remote place or top of mountains. I guess this little priory was also built in remote place although now it was by the busy road. 

Back to Puge, it still has old refectory with stone sink and huge fire place. Every time when I visit monastery or abby ruins , and mention refectory, I always imagine it would be like one in Puge.  

Same as magical Leiston abby in Leiston, Suffolk, it would've been the sight when monks or people on pilgrimage saw the abbey standing afar. 

I wonder who came to St. Olave's priory? 

Never realise so much history in East Anglia. More I discover, more i fall in love with the area.

Our next adventure from here was Burgh Castle Roman Fort on my next blog! 

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/st-olaves-priory/

Norfolk Walks---Grimes Graves

8/June

Marcus told me about this place, we hadn't managed to get there. He took me there once, but it was closed. I think it was winter time, it wasn't opened.

This place is run by English heritage, of course, need to pay to get in. Worth paying visit. It's neolithic frint mines. the whole area was digged, and looked really bumpy. I didn't know what to expect from the site, so, just went along. 

Next to the car park, there's a little building where you pay and a shop. They have light snacks and ice creams etc... I had a bag of crisps after our visit the mine. I was hungry (again!) People were having picnic there too. 

This grey box-like building is where you get in to the bottom of the mine. On the top of windows, there are a few holes. I wondered what they were for, apparently, they were for bats to fly in and out from the mine. Lovely!

Stairs, more like a ladder, to go down is a bit steep, and they only let you go down one at a time. For health and safety, also, they asked you to put a yellow helmet on. 

When we were down the bottom, I thought it was really dark and wet, but it wasn't too bad. Quite big area and lit the mine, so, could see what it was like.

Felt like as if someone used to live there! We spend a bit time down, and went back up again. it was busy little place with families.

This whole area was full of mines, One we saw was the biggest one. Rest of them were filled with earth. How did they know frint was deep underneath of the ground there? 

"Grime’s Graves is the only Neolithic flint mine open to visitors in Britain. This grassy lunar landscape of 400 pits was first named Grim’s Graves by the Anglo-Saxons. It was not until one of them was excavated in 1870 that they were identified as flint mines dug over 5,000 years ago. 

A small exhibition area illustrates the history of this fascinating site. Visitors can descend 9 metres (30 ft) by ladder into one excavated shaft to see the jet-black flint."


 Grimes Graves: Lynford, Thetford, Norfolk - IP26 5DE